Daily and Seasonal Writing Journals with Directed Drawings for the Year BUNDLE

Do you need a simple, yet effective daily writing activity that will help build independent writers? This bundle of phonics-based and seasonal daily writing journals for First Grade combine multiple skills of drawing, handwriting, and sentence writing for an all-in-one writing warm-up activity. Use this daily to watch your students become independent and confident writers!

These Daily Writing Journals can be used for morning work, writing centers, independent work, or as a warm-up activity for all of your writing lessons. They are aligned to First Grade Common Core Standards, focusing on both writing and phonics standards. 

Grab everything you need for daily writing in this bundle!

⭐️ Daily Writing Journals ⭐️

⭐️ Seasonal Writing Journals ⭐️

Here is a closer look at what you will receive in the First Grade Daily Writing Journals:

These phonics-based daily writing journals for First Grade combine multiple skills of drawing, handwriting, and sentence writing for an all-in-one writing warm-up activity. Use this daily to watch your students become independent and confident writers!

These Daily Writing Journals can be used for morning work, writing centers, independent work, or as a warm-up activity for all of your writing lessons. They are aligned to First Grade Common Core Standards, focusing on both writing and phonics standards. 

This Resource Includes Over 180 Daily Writing Journal Pages With:

• Handwriting Practice
• Directed Drawing 
• Sentence Writing
• Phonics-Based Practice

You Will Also Receive:

• A Google Slides version to project on screen
• Pages to teach how to use this resource
• Differentiation ideas to support all of your students!

Click on the preview to see a closer look at the resource! 

This Daily Phonics-Based Writing Journal was designed to give your students more practice with the writing skills that there never seems to be enough time for...handwriting and drawing!

Handwriting Practice

After the first few weeks of school, we often stop teaching handwriting daily. Our students may forget to focus on forming each letter correctly and they begin to just write as fast as they can. With these daily writing journals, students will spend time focusing on handwriting practice every day, without adding additional handwriting activities to their writing lesson.

Directed Drawings

The directed drawings were created to help your students learn how to draw over 180 basic pictures, using simple lines and shapes. They will follow the step-by-step drawing example, then add details to make it their own. Your students will become more confident drawing on their own, using the drawing skills they’ve learned throughout the rest of their writing activities.

Phonics-Based

Each day focuses on a specific phonics skill to combine what they are learning in their phonics instruction with a writing activity. Students will isolate the phonics sound in the word that they are drawing and practice writing the letter, word, or phonics pattern. When students are able to phonetically spell words, their writing ability will improve as they use more words when writing. 

Just print and go!

These daily writing journals can be used throughout the year to continually review handwriting, drawing, and sentence writing. You can make these daily writing journals into a spiral-bound journal, display them on your SMART Board to use your own notebooks, or just print them daily.

THE FOLLOWING PHONICS SKILLS ARE INCLUDED:

Letter Sounds:

• A-Z (X is an ending sound)

Ending Sounds:

• -b, -d, -g, -m, -n, -p, -s, -t, -x

Short Vowels/Word Families: 

• ab, an, ag, ap, at, mixed short a
• eb, ed, eg, en, et, mixed short e
• ib, ig, ip, it, ix, mixed short i
• ob, od, og, op, ot, mixed short o
• ub, ug, un, up, ut, mixed short u

CVC Words

• an, at, ad, am, et, en, ed, id, in, ig, it, om, ot, op, ot, ug, ut, ub, un, mixed cvc

Digraphs

• th, sh, ch, wh, ph, ck, mixed digraphs

Consonant Blends

• bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, mixed L-blends
• br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, mixed R-blends
• sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, mixed S-blends

CVCe Words

• a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e, cvce review

Long Vowels

• ay, ai, ee, ea, ie, igh, y, oa, ow, oe, ue, ui, mixed cvce

Additional Practice with Mono-Syllabic and Multi-syllabic Words

Here is a closer look at what you will receive in the Seasonal Writing Journals:

These seasonal writing journals combine multiple skills of drawing, handwriting, vocabulary, and sentence writing for an all-in-one writing warm-up activity. Use this daily to watch your students build vocabulary as they become independent and confident writers!

These Seasonal Writing Journals can be used for morning work, writing centers, independent work, or as a warm-up activity for all of your writing lessons. 100 seasonal words are included to give you activities to use all through the year!

This Resource Includes 200 Differentiated Writing Journal Pages With:

• Vocabulary
• Handwriting Practice
• Directed Drawing 
• 100 Pages with Independent Sentence Writing
• 100 Pages with a Sentence to Trace

THE FOLLOWING VOCABULARY WORDS ARE INCLUDED:

Fall Vocabulary: acorn, apple, apple tree, apple pie, apple basket, chestnut, corn, hay, hedgehog, jacket, leaf, mushroom, owl, pinecone, pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, pumpkin, rake, raven, squash, sunflower, sweater, tree, wagon, wheat, wheelbarrow

Winter Vocabulary: blanket, boot, coat, earmuffs, fireplace, glove, hat, hot cocoa, ice skate, jacket, marshmallow, mitten, scarf, ski goggles, skis, sled, snow, snow globe, snow shovel, snowball, snowboard, snowflake, snowman, thermometer, tree

Spring Vocabulary: bee, bird, bunny, butterfly, caterpillar, dragonfly, duck, flower, frog, grass, kite, ladybug, lamb, nest, puddle, rain, rain boot, rainbow, rain coat, seeds, snail, sprout, tulip, umbrella, watering can

Summer Vocabulary: beach ball, bucket, crab, sandals, float, ice cream, lemonade, palm tree, pool, sandcastle, shell, shovel, sea star, sun, sun hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, surf board, swimsuit, towel, swim trunks, umbrella, watermelon

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